Tractor-trailer collides with train in Westmoreland County

An attempt to turn around on a dead-end street ends with a train and a tractor trailer colliding in Bell Township, Westmoreland County.

Emergency officials are still on the scene at Main Street near Bridge Street in Avonmore, working to clean up the mess.

The accident happened just before 8 a.m. The driver of the tractor trailer had to be taken to the hospital for a head injury.

Dan Stevens, a spokesman for the county's Department of Public Safety, said the driver was attempting to make a delivery and turned down a road that is now closed. He said the driver did not have an updated GPS.

"This used to be a road that would take you into Avonmore. That road has been closed for quite a few years," Stevens said.

The driver was hauling a 55-gallon drum of xylene, a liquid cleaning agent, that overturned and spilled.

Hazmat crews were called to clean up the spill, but it was contained to the truck and evaporated quickly. Officials say there are no environmental risks and nobody was in danger or had to be evacuated.

As a result of the collision, Stevens said Norfolk Southern has three cars and three engines that derailed.

"The engines are located on a bridge and they are actually off the rails and on the bridge, so it's going to take a little more time to get that rail back open," Stevens said.

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